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Log it as a single record with its price,\nand that price joins the rest.",[91,133,135],{"id":134},"what-the-car-costs-per-month-per-year-and-overall","What the car costs per month, per year and overall",[82,137,138,139,142],{},"Every priced record adds up in ",[86,140,141],{"href":14},"the car's costs",", split by maintenance\ncategory and fuel. Put this year beside last year, and you can see\nwhether fuel or the new tires made the difference.",[82,144,145,146,149],{},"Add ",[86,147,148],{"href":29},"every car you own",", and each one's costs come only from its own\nrecords.",{"title":151,"searchDepth":152,"depth":152,"links":153},"",2,[154,155,156,157],{"id":93,"depth":152,"text":94},{"id":104,"depth":152,"text":105},{"id":119,"depth":152,"text":120},{"id":134,"depth":152,"text":135},"usecase","Free on iPhone, with every feature included, no subscription and no account to create.","Car Care: Maintenance Tracker, a free car maintenance app for iPhone, adds up what your car costs to run. Log fill-ups, service jobs and renewals with their prices, and see the car's costs per month, per year and overall, along with your MPG.","md",{},true,[165,169,173],{"id":166,"question":167,"answer":168},"which-records-count","Which records count toward what my car costs?","Every record you log in Car Care with a price counts toward the car's costs. That covers each fill-up, each job and extra cost line on a service, work you did yourself, and inspection, registration and insurance renewals.",{"id":170,"question":171,"answer":172},"typing-in-service-prices","Do I have to type in every price from the service receipt?","No. [A scan of the receipt](\u002Ffeatures\u002Freceipt-scanning) fills in the service with every job and its price, ready for you to check before it is saved. Once saved, those prices count toward the car's costs like any you type in.",{"id":174,"question":175,"answer":176},"mpg-and-fuel-spending","Can I see my MPG and what I spend on fuel in one place?","Yes. 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